In a letter “to the Hoboken Community” posted on the district website on Thursday, Interim Superintendent Richard Brockel wrote that the district’s program purchased 300 laptops “with the intent to provide technology for all students regardless of their relative personal economic situation.”

“The one-on-one program was revised in favor of other programs for students in which the laptops could be utilized more effectively,” he continued. “As a result, we have established rolling laptop carts in our schools for teachers to use with their students in classrooms.”

Brockel noted that some of the older laptops were reaching the end of their “useful life” and thus were being recycled.

"Rest assured that we shall continue to utilize some 200 or more laptops from the initial program in ways that I’ve described," Brockel concluded. "As I stated previously, we shall continue to monitor and evaluate these programs as well as all our programs with a constant eye towards effectiveness for students."

Brockel again did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for further comment.